August 2003: I am sylvester_1990 on GameKnot.com. Log on and send me a challenge and we will play a game.

November 2002: I learned to play from my Pop when I was six. My older sister is a good player [1650]. I am good at problems and can beat her at blitz some of the time. In a regular game I lose to her a lot. I estimate my strength to be about 1400. I like Morphy and Fischer. My favorite foreign players are Tal and Gligoric.

Sylvester: If Kasparov and Kramnik just held a unification match it would generate a lot of interest. They would not need a large purse. The winner could cash in later. A clear Champion would make the next match much more attractive to the money people.

Sylvester: I don't think it is all that easy for a human "to calculate all the variations." So the centaur would seem to have the best of both worlds. But in your example the centaur would not have the computer's opening book. So that is one advantage to the computer. But probably not ...